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the king." joining me is correspondent keir simmons. what we heard from the bishop of london there is that she was a remarkable constant, talking about the queen, a remarkable constant. and now similar from what we heard from king charles iii saying "our values have remained and must remain constant." >> absolutely. and just a remark, hearing "god save the king," just another moment where things are remaining constant but changing so much. i was just thinking before talking to you, katy, just think about this, our money has the picture of the creed on it. that is going to change. that's just one of many, many moments we're going to face in months ahead. in terms of what charles had to say today and it was just less than ten minutes but it said so much, he was vowing consistency but he was also vowing change. there were moments there that you will recognize if you know

prince charles a little bit. he talked about many faiths. he's always been committed in many faiths. >> a particular interest in islam. >> exactly. he didn't just in his speech say, okay, i'm the king and i'll do what i'm told, if you like. he is the king and he gets to shape this in the way that he wants to. but, of course, as you rightly say, also remaining constant. he talked about his mother's abiding love of tradition and promise to continue her service and duty. to be honest and most moving parts of charles' speech is when he talked about his mother. it looked as if perhaps there was a tear and how could he not be emotional. he's quite an emotional man. so that i think is important in that speech. some other changes, too, in that speech. even though it seemed so judicial. it echoed speeches the queen has made over the years.

william and kate will be princess of wales, everybody immediately when you hear princess of wales you'll think about diana. what an important moment for william and kate that she is the next princess of wales. >> she's assuming that title. it gives me chills just to think about it. he also mentions harry and meghan, which frankly took me by surprise. >> no, he will have wanted to seem open hearted and magnanimous. he said my love for harry and meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas, it was a very simple thing to say, wasn't it? but i also think he actually does truly feel that. anybody who has had trouble in their family will know how painful it is and how much quite often everybody wants to try to heal it. and let's just hope that by saying those words he helps that

process. by the way, that's what the queen wanted. the queen did not want this division in the family. and i also think because once again this is -- these are human beings, this is a human story, it's a constitutional story and it's also a little bit political. i think he also knows that he needs to smooth that over. >> for the reputation of the family, he is at his core a son who has lost his mother. obviously he's much more than that to the u.k. and the commonwealth. i was struck, though, i know he's been preparing for this his whole life, he's in his 70s and had a long time to get ready, but i was struck at the poise and confidence he had in addressing the nation. >> in a way he's been doing this job for a long time, prince of wales. he's stepping into shoes he's been thinking about stepping into for a very long time. that not to diminish the impact

it had on him. nobody can lose their mom at any age and not have it have a profound impact on them. he said in his speech he will continue her dedication to duty but i also think what he will be wanting to do is to show that in his actions and by coming outside at buckingham palace right at the beginning, first he is trying to show he'll remain connected to people as king and wants to be that kind of king but also demonstrating that despite the private grief that he and his family are feeling, his first priority is public duty. and of course that was the queen. >> thank you so much. you teased a couple of the things that we're going to be talking about right now. the second elizabethan era and the second period has begun.

king charles again pledged himself to his people. >> as the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, i, too, now solemnly pledge myself throughout the remaining time god grants me to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. and wherever you may live in the united kingdom or in the realms and territories across the world and whatever may be your background or beliefs, i shall endeavor to serve you with loyal, respect and love as i have throughout my life. >> charles is already king, a title that passed to him the moment his mother closed her eyes for the last time as the monarchy never dies, it only passes but the first official ceremony to mark him as king

happens tomorrow at the ascension council. it will be broadcast live on television for the first time in history. other changes are still to come from the country's postage and eventually its currency. and while king charles will surrender his passport and his driver's license, everyone else will have their i.d.s changed, removing elizabeth and adding charles eventually. relatively small adjustments compared to the big question of what kind of king charles will be. will a king charles who is known to be opinionated and outspoken reign it in as british monarchs traditionally do. the monarch is known to not express strong opinions of any nature but this king has causes that matter to him, like climate change. as prince he wasn't always politically neutral. his attempts to influence policy have been criticized. the black spider memos named for

charles' distinctive handwritings are a series of notes sent to governor minister and prime ministers themselves and at the time he was accused of meddling in political matters that should have been left to elected officials, his critics said. and how will he try to lobby the country in his favor? no one in the royal family is as popular as queen elizabeth was. not even close. will the public turn toward him in this moment of mourning? and if it does, how long will that goodwill last and what will it mean for the future of the monarchy and the future of the commonwealth? the world has changed? so what happens next? let's bring in our guests for this hour. contributor susannah lipscomb.

daisy, i do want to begin with you. let's pick up on the continuity. i wonder if he was trying to tap into that same enthusiasm, the same love that he had for the queen, telling them in many ways he will be just like her? >> i think it was an impressive speech and very difficult speech to get the tone just right. if you're too formal, you're stuffy and out of touch and if you're too emotional, people are going to worry you're not going to be that stable, reliable monarch we can all lean on in times of trouble. i thought he did very well. there was a lot of detail in there. obviously he had to pay respects to the queen and he did that throughout the speech ending with a very emotional thank you and may you be with the angels,

which i suspect wouldn't have left many dry eyes in the television audience watching that. but some really interesting specific bits. you were just talking there about his black spider letters which a lot of people disapproved of, his apparent meddling in politics over the years and he was very specific and outspoken in that speech saying that he knows he will now have to stop championing the issues that he feels so strongly about and he said in that speech that he would hope that others close to him would now sort of take on the mantle. i think that was a clear sign that he was saying he will now back off on those issues, the involvement, whatever it might be the countryside but that he's pretty certain other members of the royal family and i imagine he's talking about william and the environment there that william will take on that mantle and banging those drums. >> he did tell a bbc documentary

filmmaker who asked him are you going to be as outspoken as king as you are as prince and i believe the quote is "no, i'm not stupid," but at the same time, these are issues he is passionate about, these are issues that are very big ones for this country and for the world, life threatening issues. do you expect that maybe if he's not public about it, there might be words to the prime minister in private, words that we probably won't ever hear about? >> well, katy, you put your finger on it because of course now king charles -- i still want to say prince charles -- king charles will be able to meet the queen -- king charles will meet the prime minister every week and he will be able to sit down with the prime minister just like the queen was able to do and be able to say whatever's on his mind and to be wise counsel for the prime minister. one of the remarkable things over the history of the queen's reign was what those

conversations never leaked out and theresa may, two prime ministers ago, said it was the only place she knew she could go where there would be no leakage in any briefing of what was said. and he will try to influence the government i'm sure in certain ways. but the only time it becomes a political problem is if he is not doing the government's bidding. so we've seen the queen act in political ways. you think of her going to ireland, for example, going to dublin given the trouble that there was with the long history of conflict. she went there but she went there because the foreign office, the foreign department wanted her to be there. so as long as king charles acts in step with what the government is doing, well, they'll welcome it. and i think now he will be able to say, look, what about this, what about that? but he knows that he cannot be writing memos to the minister of

this or the minister of that saying i'm not happy, what are you going to do about it? >> susannah, what about faith in keir and i were just taking about it. he's anglican but has faith in other religions, i mentioned islam. he said he doesn't want to be known as defender of "the" faith, a title that comes with the monarchy but defender of faith, showing respect for the diversity of not just the united kingdom but the commonwealth. how might that go over? >> well, it's perfectly acceptable in terms of translating the latin title that was given originally to henry viii. so i think what it shows is that the king has a real sense of wanting to bring unity and respect and tolerance to all of

the people of this country and indeed of all of the other states that he is now sovereign over. and he wants to make sure that is signalled at this early stage. he, as i believe, has a christian faith but this is something that is deliberately inclusive. and i think that tells us something about the sort of king he's going to be because he's been much pilloried in the past and yet he is and i think we saw that or heard it in the words of his speech. a man who is thoughtful and cultured and sensitive, there was so much emotion in that speech, and he is intelligent as well. he has been training for this role for longer than most monarchs have reigned, and he carries that sort of quiet authority and the care for people. and you also saw that in that very moving footage just now of

people greeting him and their reactions to him. i suspect that if we give him a chance, he will show that he could be a very good king indeed, who demonstrates that soft power that his mother was so famous for and also manages to be discrete. >> he comes with so much more baggage because of the life that he has spent in the public eye not as a monarch and everything that happened presumably during the 90s with diana, wounds that have been reopened because diana is so much back in popular culture right now with "the crown", the netflix show being as popular as it is. and then there's the rift with his son harry and his wife, meghan. and i thought to understand what i was talking about with keir, i thought it was very interesting that he did make a note to address harry and meghan. let me play that sound bite.

>> i want to express my love for harry and meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas. >> susannah. >> my thoughts on that are that he very much wanted to show that he, again, is including people. he wanted there to be no sense of division between the two -- his two sons. and he wanted to signal early in his reign that that is not going to be perpetuated, this sense of a division and a divide between them, that he loves both of them. that they have different roles to play and now prince william is the prince of wales and is stepping up into his father's shoes, but that harry still remains cherished and i thought that was a really important moment because he wants to carry

them with him. >> i know the next ten days are highly choreographed. there's been planning that's been going into how this -- how these remembrances will play out for decades now, but i wonder if we are going to see something physical or something in public, in person between prince charles, prince william and prince harry given all that we've been talking about, what do you think, daisy? >> i'm sure we will. and as you were just saying, plans for the next ten days have been in motion since the 1960s. so really very, very little is left to chance. obviously those plans constantly change and evolve and they will still be changing and evolving today. we still doesn't officially know what day the state funeral will be. but as far as a role for harry, suddenly in the past there was always envisioned to be a role for harry. it was always thought that

harry, william and charles would walk behind the coffin, that they would all go to the state when the queen will be lying in state. so i certainly would expect to see a significant amount of harry in the next few days. and i would echo what sam was just saying about harry being mentioned and meghan being mentioned specifically by name in that speech. do i think that was significant and very significant that prince charles, i'm doing it today, everybody is doing it today, calling him prince charles -- king charles that he is making william prince of wales and very significantly of course therefore katherine the princess of wales and she's already been commenting through spokespeople and through friends saying that she is deeply aware of the historical significance of that

title, of course it having been in abeyance since the death of diana, princess of wales. of course camilla was eligible to call herself, if they had decided that was what they wanted to do, princess of wales but very sensibly in my view decided that would not be appropriate and the country wouldn't take kindly to that so she called herself duchess of balmoral. that will be an emotional moment when we start reusing every day that title of the princess of wales. i think the fact that that happened for william and kate, it was then even more important that charles should talk about harry and meghan. >> i will note that harry showed up to balmoral on his own and it did seem this morning he left on his own as well. thank you very much for starting us off. world leaders past and present are honoring the life and the

legacy of queen elizabeth ii. >> and one final quality, of course her humility, her electric fire, tupperware using refusal to be grand and unlike us politicians with our writers and armored convoys, i can tell you that i witnessed that she drove herself in her own car with no detectives and no bodyguard bouncing at alarming speed. >> she's an incredible gracious and decent woman. our thoughts and prayers are with the united kingdom and the people of the united kingdom and their grief. >> across the world british embassies have been gathering

spots for britons and locals to mourn together. the queen was queen to nearly 2 billion people. joining me is the chairperson of best for britain. you can see the former magazine writer in former prime minister boris johnson. tupperware using refusal to be grand, he says, in describing queen elizabeth. she was a head of state. she was a queen to so many, but she was also a notable diplomat. >> that's exactly right. i mean, she did 70 years on the throne. she saw i think 14 american presidents, everyone from harry truman to joe biden with the exception of lbj, met many presidents and traveled

extensively. i saw her in action from a distance and she was a consummate diplomat. and she handled some very difficult characters at that time. it's unimaginable at that time. on an estate visit to the uk in the late 70s, since she had to boost him, president putin came on a state visit. unimaginable now that he would do that but he did in 2003 and she spent time with him and lots of other interesting characters at that time. and she was absolutely masterful at it. >> you met the queen when she knighted you back in 2008. i'm just wondering if you can reflect on that moment for us. what was it like? >> yeah, that was of course a huge honor, but it passed in a

flash. we're all there on the stage for a minute or two and then it's over. what i remember much more vividly was when you become ambassador you go with the queen and i went to brussels and to washington. i had two audiences. and she would chat away about the country you were going to, showing quite extraordinary depth of knowledge about the country and about foreign policy generally. i learned she would read a batch of foreign telegrams every morning. if you hadn't read your telegrams when you met her, you were liable to be caught up that she was extraordinary knowledgeable but also you saw privately those flashes of humor for which she is famous. i remember the second of the

instances as i was starting to walk out and i tripped over one of the dogs, one of the famous corgis. i thought maybe this is the end of my career. she just lawed. laughed. the corgi was less pleased. she took it very well. >> that's very funny. you have experience working abroad. we were talking about her being able to smooth over tensions with some are not able to. how does king charles take on that role? >> as we have said, he has been preparing for this role for decades. i and many of my colleagues have briefed him before he's gone to overseas visit and actually in washington when he came to

president bush, he is very knowledgeable, traveled extensively and has formed certain passions. as others have said, as prince of wales you can say some controversial things. i am sure he won't do that publicly as king. i'm also confident that he will be -- he will be a very, very diplomat and a very good representation of british -- he's had a lot of practice. he will be up to this. he will know what he's doing. >> thank you very much for joining us. and coming up, operation london bridge. inside the detailed, not-so-secret plan laying out what will happen after queen elizabeth's death, what has already begun today and the uk is in mourning. britain is paying its respect to

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we've all had in our lives. and i just want to show me respect. >> it's the queen. she looks like my grandma. she kind of feels like that as well. my mom says charles can never replace her. >> i feel very sad. >> what i hear today, "it feels like i lost a member of my family." you hear that here in london and across the united kingdom. people are only beginning to adjust to a change that happened in a moment. row after row of flowers, reminiscent of what we saw after

the death of princess diana. it is such a fraught time. there's a new prime minister, a new king. there's a lot of change all at once. what are people telling you? >> reporter: you're right, katy. it is a really fractious moment in british history and an extraordinary changing of the guard, a new head of state and a new head of government in the space of 72 hours. it's historic. ironically, i'm hearing this from people in the street, people calling in to radio shows, which are a big thing here, they're all saying this is actually bringing the country together. it's kind of a cliche to see people are uniting in tragedy but it is absolutely true. here's what some of the people have been saying. >> of course i feel sad. and i'm going to feel a lot of the same stuff a lot of other people feel. she was a wonderful woman.

>> what she represented, you know, history and all of that, you know. what she represented and stood for, moral values and ethics. >> she stayed the course. >> reporter: one of the interesting things is everybody has been describing their own personal, intimate experiences with this woman, this head of state who couldn't have been more distant, who couldn't have been further away, more unreachable and yet so many people here describe their relationships with her in personal terms. they have personal anecdotes to say about a person who they maybe met once probably. most of them haven't even met in person at all and certainly don't know in any intimate way. she really had that effect on people. they really felt, as you heard earlier, that this woman saying she was like their grandmother. it felt like she was part of their own family. not necessarily just because she

was queen, just because she was monarch. it was because of not necessarily because of her emnance but she had this cache. people believed her because they had watched her endure before. that's something that king charles will have to reattain, that quality for the monarchy. >> and even some commoners who did have a chance to meet her would say she spoke to us like we were just like her. she understood us. it's a remarkable quality as you are the queen of a company. as boris johnson said a tupperware using refusal to be grande. and the death of queen elizabeth ii started a choreographed

operation known as operation london bridge. it starts with a one-sentence message to the prime minister, "london bridge is down" and it goes out to the other 56 nations of the commonwealth and then as we all witnessed yesterday, to the entire world all at once. in reading through this old 2017 "guardian" article about just the procedure that will be undertaken in the next ten days, the detail is remarkable. it's everything from how the coffin is constructed, how you carry the coffin to what music to play on the bbc in the lead up to the death announcement? because there was always an invocation. if you heard a certain kind of mood music, mood two or mood one

(saddest), you knew something really awful was about to be announced. john. >> britain may have its problems at the moment, there are many, energy crisis and all the rest of it, but when it comes to putting on a show and you're showing pictures there from the queen's coronation, britain can do it pretty well. and the arrangements have been meticulous about all of this and have been revisited and visited again. i spent most of my career in the bbc. i have been involved in rehearsals of what we do when the queen dies. so that we get it right. so that it's totally correct, so that we know what the procedures are invariably things don't ever quite work out to plan. and i was at westminster today and i could see them getting everything ready for when she's going to lie in state and for all that's going to happen over

the next ten days. and this is what the british state does very well and it's had time to plan for it, but it's also aware, the british state, that things can happen in an unexpected way and the surprises are what is going to show how well they can react to public mood and all the rest of it. >> it wasn't always that way, daisy. about a hundred years and a little bit more, they weren't so good at pulling off these big, grand events. it's relatively modern that the brits got their act together and have been able to show the pageantry and the theater of being in the monarchy to bring the whole country together by taking part in this spectacle. >> exactly. if you think about when these processions or spectacles as you've just called them were first put together, there was no television. you might get a portrait painted

by an artist to commemorate the event but that was about it. of course now is so much is beamed around the world and it is a sort of advertisement. the royal family are the first to understand that part of the appeal of the monarchy is a form of tourism, a form of showing off about britain and plugging in to that sense of history and trying to sell it around the world. and it's almost to say that's why they don't want to leave anything to chance on these big events. funny enough, i was just talking to somebody earlier today who used to be involved in the military side of these processions, in the king's troupe and the king's troupe will be very much involved when the coffin of the monarchy is moved on the day of the state funeral and that is a big deal in itself, the courtage, as it's called, and one of the things he was telling me, right now a

sergeant major, a drill sergeant, will be choosing the eight soldiers who will be entrusted with carrying the queen's coffin into the cathedral. the one thing you really don't want to go wrong is for the coffin of the monarch to be dropped. what you have to bare in mind is the coffin ways literally half a ton because it is lead lined. they are pretty much putting these soldiers through their paces at the moment and who are the strongest ones and finding eight who are roughly the same height, same size and they'll be going through their rehearsals and the sort of level of detail that we're talking about. >> you hit on one of the most interesting details to me is that the ten pal bearers will go

to a private place and practice carrying this led-lined coffin. diana's weighed a quarter of a ton, the practice going in to make sure this all goes right. just how meticulous this plan is, it's been in the offing. is it being changed right now, john? are there still details being hammered out? >> as daisy says, they all want to get it right. one detail that fascinated me from what unfolded yesterday. we talked about the first alert in the house of commons when notes were being passed around and the look of shock on the faces of conservative politicians, conservative and labor on energy prices in the u.k. i can't believe it was just a statement they were given that

was given to the public because all that said was the queen was under medical supervision. and i've got a feeling that sort of london bridge is down was being handed to those politicians that were the leading politicians of each party, the ruling conservative party and opposition labor party because why would they have looked so alarmed at just a note saying the queen is under medical supervision. i think we've already seen some of the plan unfolding before our eyes, even though we're not entirely conscious of it ourselves. >> and we're going to -- go ahead, daisy. >> so much of this does come down to minute-by-minute precision. so when the flags are lowered to half mast, that has to be within ten minutes of an official announcement. and that's all the flags apart from the red flags on beaches to say that the beach isn't safe. they're the only flags that are

exempt from going to half mast. so think about how many flags that is. and they all have to be coordinated. all the web sites have to have black borders all around them. there are so many things that have to be changed and all it have has to happen at exactly the same moment. it's like a swan with the frantic feet underneath swimming frantically but trying to look like everything's calm. >> stick with us -- >> i'm sorry. >> go ahead, john. go ahead. >> daisy and i have covered the state open with parliament. that happens every year. you get a handful of what is going to happen. and it is literally at 11:59:30 the horse-drawn carriage will turn into the entrance of the house of lords. 11:59:30, it turns into the house of lords. at 11:59:50, the queen will --

and it all happens to the second. you think how can they do it like that? they will do it again for this funeral that will be watched around the world. >> we're going to be watching it. i do hope we are able to pull that moment in parliament yesterday, that potential london bridge is down. i just want to end this conversation, you two are sticking around but i want to end this conversation with just a last bit from the "guardian." it will be ten days of spectacle and sorrow and like the monarchy itself, it will revel in who we were and avoid the question of what we have become. from empire to commonwealth, queen elizabeth reigned over an evolving world order and a disappearing empire during her 70-year reign. her death is reigniting talk in the 14 countries.

today headlines from across the globe are showing rumblings for independence may be growing louder in the wake of the queen's passing. joining me is ed luce. thank you so much for being here. i want to play a sound bite from somebody on the streets here of london that spoke to one of my colleagues, talking about the monarchy. let's listen. >> lovely woman but, you know, come to the 21st century, we should really move on from this. it's bad to say, sympathy for the family and those who really feel so strongly about her. >> come on now, in the 21st century, we should really move on from this to be honest. it is potentially a moment of reflection for the monarchy. >> think change, any rupture like this, but particularly one

after 70 years is going to be a potential moment of reflection. we did see one in the reaction to the death of diana and we've seen many over the course of british and english history. you mentioned history. some of the pageantry we're seeing is not much more than a century old but really most of it was invented in the 1860s, 1870s, but prime minister disraley, to help repopularize queen victoria, because she had just gone into isolation after the death of her husband, and the monarchy was very unpopular, socialism was on the rise, and small "r" republicanism was on the rise, too. you can't discount some of that now. i imagine, though, given the assuredness of king charles' address earlier today, i imagine, though, that he's going

to play this pretty skillfully and we'll be aware of the dangers. >> it doesn't -- tell me if i'm wrong on this, but i thought as i understand it, it doesn't necessarily transfer that king charles becomes the head of the commonwealth, or there is a moment for many of these countries to say, you know what, we're done with this. queen elizabeth was very popular and it's been said that many of them were just sticking around because of her. we already saw barbados earlier this year, it already declared independence, but shed queen elizabeth as their figurative head of state. there's talk about scotland having another referendum. >> there is. and we saw barbados, i think it was last year, change to a republic -- change its head of state. we've seen, i guess, talk about continuity, dozens of countries doing that during elizabeth's reign. so it's going to continue.

i would be very surprised if a decade from now more than one or two caribbean countries have the queen on their notes and their coins. i think there is great historic ties, cultural affinities, links between families. the west indeese plays contradict against england. it's still a passionate support. but having a foreign monarch on your notes is something that's going to feel particularly to younger generations frustratingly traditional, but the monarchy is used to this. every few years, somebody gets rid of -- somebody becomes a republic. a couple of quirky examples. fiji being one, have become a republic in a coup, and then when the coup was overturned, they've asked to rejoin the commonwealth and put the queen

back on their currency so it can occasional go the other way. >> ed luce, thank you very much for joining us. there were moments of levity. i was struck by the words i did not expect to hear and the stories that made the whole chamber laugh. here's former prime minister, theresa may. >> i remember one picnic at balmoral that was taking place at one of the baths on the estate. the hampers came from the castle and we all mucked in tout the food and drink out on the table. i picked up some cheese, put it on a plate and was transferring it to the table. the cheese fell on the floor. i had a split-second decision to make. i picked up the cheese, put it on the plate and put it on the

table. and i turned around to see that my every move was being watched very carefully by her majesty, the queen. i looked at her, she looked at me and she just smiled. >> and she just smiled. back with me is nbc news royal commentator, daisy mcandrew and former north america editor for bbc news, john solpool. i was watching the eulogies, a lot had very heavy words, solemn remembrances, remembering what a figurehead she was, what an incredible woman she was to devote her life to service and she did so. but like theresa may was just telling us, there were a lot of funny stories, a lot of intimate moments that we hadn't heard before about the queen, john. >> she was an extraordinary woman. and there are so many funny

stories that you could be presented with this visage of a woman who was austere and remote and that wasn't the reality. and anyone who has had contact with her directly and i've had a tiny bit, and again, i saw the fun when i was kind of introducing her to do something and there was meant to be a music, kids were made to dance and the music didn't happen, and she was just fun about the whole thing. and i thought the stories that were being told about her, about moral and where she could kick back and relax were just fabulous. and i think that that is what people are going to hold dear. and that is why, as well, i think there is such a sense of loss, that people feel, you know, me, daisy i suspect, as well, her family, we all feel we've lost a member of our family with the passing of the queen and that is a common feeling across britain at the moment. >> a kind one, too. there was another foreign

minister saying that she got sacked from her position and that nobody wanted to talk to her, her phone never rang, and her staff was shocked to find that queen elizabeth was calling, inviting her for tea. it was funny that she said it, but it also demonstrated how decent she was, daisy. >> yes, very decent, very thoughtful. she talked about being invited to tea just to cheer her up. it wasn't for a constitutional reason, it was just because she was a nice person trying to cheer her up and her ability to cheer people up is something that boris johnson talked about. and i think a lot of eyes on that, prince charles wondering, are you going to be able to cheer us up in the way that the queen did when we need it. are you going to be able to be fun by doing sketches at the

jubilee. there was another fun story who told a story when he was a state banquet, he said, the queen went up to him and said, can you please tell the president that i want to go to bed. and george austin said, apparently, president obama was having a bit too much fun [ inaudible ] about as awkward as it gets. in fact, he did go to bed. but all of these stories are coming out and will continue to come out of her very, very human side. >> daisy, we lost your audio for a second there, but we got the

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